Another Gulmohar Tree
by Aamer Hussein
Published by : ILQA Publications (Lahore) Physical details: 114 Pages 20x13 cm | PB ISBN:9789696400004. Year: 2014| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | 823.914 A112A 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | 32630 |
Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia impulsively abandons her life in London and boards a ship to Karachi, where the two are married. But as the years flit by Usman feels distanced from his life and realises that he hasn't noticed the buds of the gulmohar tree unfurl. A beautiful account of a marriage that is in turns wry and
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